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“This Embodies Everything Weird About The Role of Women in Evangelicalism”

The title of this post comes from the Facebook page of Adina Johnson, a Ph.D student in American history at Baylor University. (Used with permission). It is her written reaction to a story on Ruth Graham (the wife of evangelist Billy Graham) that she discovered during her research in the December 1954 issue of the national evangelical magazine Moody Monthly:

Adina did note that pictures of Ruth Graham do appear on subsequent pages of this article.